Situated at Camp Pendleton, the West Coast base of the U.S. Marine Corps, The Lieutenant focuses on the men of the Corps in peace time with a Cold War backdrop. The title character is Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice, a rifle platoon leader and one of the training instructors at Camp Pendleton. An hour-long drama, The Lieutenant explores the lives of enlisted Marines and general officers alike.
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
29 episodes · 1963
Episode 1. A Million Miles From Clary
1963-09-14 · 60 min
Stew Sallaway, champion goldbrick at Clary High, could always depend on his buddy Bill Rice to get him out of a jam. Now Stew is a Marine private, and his ailing father asks Rice to have the boy to his platoon.
Episode 2. Cool of the Evening
1963-09-21 · 60 min
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Episode 3. The Proud and the Angry
1963-09-28 · 60 min
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Episode 4. Two-Star Giant
1963-10-05 · 60 min
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Episode 5. A Very Private Affair
1963-10-12 · 60 min
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Episode 6. To Take Up Serpents
1963-10-19 · 60 min
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Episode 7. A Touching of Hands
1963-10-26 · 60 min
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Episode 8. Captain Thomson
1963-11-02 · 60 min
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Episode 9. Instant Wedding
1963-11-09 · 60 min
Rice is pressed upon by a friend to look after his girl in advance of a year-long posting in the far east without leave. She demands they marry right away, and it falls on Rice to quickly put together a formal Marine wedding ceremony.
Episode 10. A Troubled Image
1963-11-16 · 60 min
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Episode 11. Fall From A White Horse
1963-11-30 · 60 min
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Episode 12. Alert
1963-12-14 · 60 min
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Episode 13. The Art of Discipline
1963-12-21 · 60 min
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Episode 14. The Alien
1963-12-28 · 60 min
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Episode 15. O'Rourke
1964-01-04 · 60 min
An ex Marine who is also a journalist is assigned to Rice's unit to do an article on the modern Marine core. Rice quickly discovers not is all as it should be in the situation.
Episode 16. Gone the Sun
1964-01-18 · 60 min
Rice returns to his home town to aid in the burial of a Marine killed in a training accident. He has to deal with the grieving family of the boy as well as the changes that have occurred since he has been away.
Episode 17. Between Music and Laughter
1964-01-25 · 60 min
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Episode 18. Interlude
1964-02-01 · 60 min
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Episode 19. Capp's Lady
1964-02-08 · 60 min
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Episode 20. Green Water Green Flag
1964-02-15 · 60 min
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Episode 21. To Set It Right
1964-02-22 · 60 min
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Episode 22. In the Highest Tradition
1964-02-29 · 60 min
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Episode 23. Tour of Duty
1964-03-07 · 60 min
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Episode 24. Lament for a Dead Goldbrick
1964-03-14 · 60 min
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Episode 25. Man with an Edge
1964-03-21 · 60 min
Rice loses his girlfriend to a Naval Academy football All-American, who also happens to be the nephew of the colonel.
Episode 26. Operation: Actress
1964-03-28 · 60 min
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Episode 27. Mother Enemy
1964-04-04 · 60 min
A young sergeant is being evaluated for officer training, but unexpectedly it's revealed that his mother is a communist agent and she's in town to pitch a rabble-rousing speech at a rally where she will denounce the Marine Corps for not…
